UNIVERSITY Challenge is one of the hardest quiz shows on the telly – but they take it easy for their Christmas specials featuring the ageing past alum of the UK’s top universities.
Jon Baird, for Aberdeen University where he was a student in the 1990s, is a film director best known for directing the recent Laurel and Hardy biopic Stan and Laurel, as well as the Irvine Welsh adaptation Filth.
A fair grounding in works about the working classes but a Marxist he is not – at least if the jaw-dropping answer he gave on Monday night’s show was anything to go by.
